General CommentI think this song is about a girl dying in a car crash. However, it may have been suicide because of the lines, "But you knew all along" and "You laugh the light / I cry the wound." This person could be laughing because she wanted to die and got her wish. The lines "Where is your heart? / Where is your heart gone to?" express the singer's sorrow over the heartlessness the girl had, to kill herself despite the fact that he loved her.

General CommentI've always viewed this song as a girl close to a man dies in a horrible car accident involving a big-rig on a rainy night. Billy (or the boy in this song/story) attends her funeral and is barely keeping his face straight as the pallbearers bring her coffin to her grave. He watches them put her to rest in the earth and his mind splits. Being a boy of religion, he believed God had people die for a reason ("And for the first time Heaven seemed insane, 'cause heaven is to blame for taking you away"). He didn't think it was her time and this thought drove him insane and became tottally dependent on the thought that it should have been the cliche "him and not her." He spends most of his free time at her grave in the rain, sometimes with an umbrella standing above her body shading her from rain, sometimes crumpled upon the floor grasping to her tombstone. His family tries to make him see that she is dead and gone and he becomes frustrated. They wonder about what has happened to their son (Where is your heart? Where has your heart run to?) He wants to be free from her as she is of him (Tear me apart from you).

I have a very vivid storyline that runs through my head every time I hear this song. I'll quiet myself now :P (Forgive any typos)

General CommentI think like most of the songs on Adore r about Billy's mother dying though im not sure if she exactly died in a car crash as its stated in the song: lost in motorcrash. This is a great song!!!